“Pirro To Brief The Press On Investigation Leak”

GOP AG candidate Jeanine Pirro has called a press conference for 4:30 p.m. this afternoon at the Sheraton New York Hotel in Manhattan to “discuss an official investigation into her personal life.”

Is this more about her husband, lobbyist Al Pirro?

More to come…

UPDATE: I’m told by several sources now – including one briefed by a Republican – that it does have to do with Al Pirro, but in the most bizarre way.

The woman who is seeking to become the state’s top legal eagleÂ is evidently under federal investigation forÂ illegally wiretapping her own husband’s office while she was Westchester County DA.

Ben Smith at the Daily Politics says WNBC in NYC is going to break the story at 4 p.m. and that the investigation includes transcripts of chats between Pirro and former NYC Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik.

At the press conference, Pirro is going to do damage control – but I can’t see how one undoes this damage and continues to run for attorney general.

A good day for state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, no?

Sources say Pirro going to claim that she and her husband areÂ actually the victims here and that they are being unfairly targeted. Â